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High Peaks makes Seed and Series A investments in industry transforming information technology companies. We are active investors who work closely with our companies, so we limit our investing to companies based in the northeast.

Mark Peter DavisVenture PartnerHigh Peaks Venture Partners

Mark is a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist. In addition to being a Venture Partner at High Peaks, Mark is the co-founder of a handful of companies. Prior to joining High Peaks, he was a venture capitalist at DFJ Gotham Ventures. He also advised Fortune 1000 companies and private equity firms on the attractiveness of acquisition targets while at both KPMG and Bain & Company earlier in his career.

Mark focuses his investing activities on internet technologies. While at DFJ Gotham Ventures, he led or co-led investments in ADstruc, Medialets, Panvidea, SailThru, Seamless Receipts, STELLAService, Yipit, and was also actively involved with Altruik, Drop.io, SinglePlatform, Solvate, Totsy, Worktopia, and ViVOtech. He is also an angel investor in Warby Parker.

Mark is an active member of NYC's venture community and was listed by BusinessInsider as one of the 100 Most Influential Digital NYers. He earned his BA at Duke and MBA at Columbia. While at Columbia, he was the President of the Private Equity & Venture Capital Club and an InSITE Fellow.

Mark actively blogs at mpd.me about fundraising, startup management and other topics relating to the startup ecosystem. Many of his posts have been syndicated or cited on The Wall Street Journal, Inc, Business Insider, PE Hub, AlwaysOn, AMEX OpenForum, Mashable and ReadWriteWeb.
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Entrepreneurship is in my DNA. I am addicted. Beyond starting companies, I am an active organizer of entrepreneurial communities in NYC and host the Tech Entrepreneurship Channel on Kohort where I am working to unify the global tech entrepreneurship ecosystem. I am also the founder of both the Columbia Venture Community and New York Venture Community, advisor to numerous other entrepreneurship communities and a mentor at TechStars and Entrepreneur's Roundtable.

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Apprenda Apprenda is the pioneering developer of a general purpose platform for SaaS applications that focuses making SaaS accessible as a distribution model to software vendors across the globe. The SaaSGrid platform gives independent software vendors the ability to deploy and deliver scalable, multi-tenant, enterprise applications via SaaS quickly and cost effectively without deviating from their core business and development competencies.

Field Lens FieldLens is the construction industry’s mobile solution to managing the jobsite from anywhere, anytime. Developed by a team of tech and construction professionals who understand that every jobsite is its own social network, our web and mobile applications provide instant connection to the field using familiar social networking tools like newsfeeds, photos, video, and tagging for real time simple access to all project data.

Kohort Kohort helps users connect with their community with best in class management tools for membership directories, communications, events, ticketing, dues, and the ability to manage any organizational structure through subgroups all with robust privacy settings.

Savored Savored (formerly VillageVines) provides restaurants with a yield management tool to discount reservations on specific nights to monetize their empty tables. With Savored, members (who sign up for free) access a curated selection of restaurants, book their reservations online and score exclusive discounts that are applied to their bills without needing to show a coupon (discounts are generally 30% off the entire bill, including alcohol).

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